Julia Pandl learned a few things from her father, George, the late restaurateur: Don't drink or eat in front of the customers, and don't consume anything from a hotel room minibar - it's too expensive!

While taking pancake orders at the Sunday brunch at George Pandl's Restaurant in Bayside, she also absorbed a lesson that is helping her sell copies of her book today. | Nov. 9, 2012»Read Full Article(3)

Jack Weissgerber, 75, the owner of a string of restaurants in the Milwaukee area, died Sunday night after falling at home, his family said, as relatives and friends struggle to deal with the sudden loss.

"Jack had reached his 70s and looked at his life with all the rewards he expected, that he worked for all his life, and now it's gone," said his younger brother and business partner, Hans Weissgerber. "He certainly epitomized a lot of human values that make us good people." | July 1, 2013»Read Full Article

The first wave of Summerfest performances got music writers Piet Levy and Jon M. Gilbertson talking about the best and worst of the week. The two hash out what rocked or fell flat from Diplo to Pretty Lights, The Avett Brothers and more, and share the acts they are most looking forward to seeing in the days ahead. | July 1, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

Every two years, the Milwaukee-based Marcus Corporation Foundation awards a $100,000 prize to an emerging talent in the field of architecture. Next to the Pritzker Prize, perhaps the field’s most prestigious award, it is one of the most lucrative architectural prizes in the world today.

It's also far less predictable, generally. Unlike the Pritzker, which tends to go to an architectural heavyweight for a life's work, the Marcus Prize is designed honor designers on the rise and requires only a decade of exceptional leadership in the field. | July 1, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(3)

James Ridge does a one-person enactment of “Dickens in America,” which continues through October 19 at American Players Theatre's Touchstone Theatre.

SpringGreen — With its searching soliloquies and deep-water exploration of why we're all here, "Hamlet" is Shakespeare's great poem unlimited. But at its core, "Hamlet" is also the story of a young man confronting the unexpected loss of his father and the meaning of mortality — in a darkening, fallen world where neither fathers nor their principles are long remembered.

The great strength of director John Langs' much-anticipated "Hamlet" — a three-hour, thirty minute affair now on stage in American Players Theatre's Up-the-Hill amphitheater — is its focus on the relationship between the young prince (Matt Schwader) and his murdered father (James Pickering), whose ghostly presence haunts this production from its beginning until the very end. | July 1, 2013»Read Full Article

The parent company of Milwaukee TV station WITI-TV (Channel 6) has reached a deal to be acquired by Tribune Co., according to several media reports.

The Associated Press reports that Tribune has agreed to pay $2.73 billion in case for Local TV Holdings LLC's 19 TV stations, boosting the Chicago-based media company's roster to 42 TV stations and cable network WGN America. The company also owns the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers. | July 1, 2013»Read Full Article(22)